The small study in patients with a rare disorder that causes liver and lung damage showed the potential for precisely ...

Science never ceases to amaze us, and one of the most mind-blowing facts about the human body is the sheer length of our DNA.

Many kinds of somatic mutations have no obvious effect on an organism, because genetically normal body cells are able to compensate for the mutated cells ... stretches of DNA (ranging from ...

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Other tools such as TALENs and ZFNs have previously passed into the mitochondria of plant and animal cells, but STAT reports that these early tools were only able to cut out and remove mutated DNA, ...

DNA contains genes that carry instructions for ... Mutations are the only source of new alleles. Some people carry a mutated version of the gene that codes for haemoglobin. The protein that ...

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Cells have evolved various DNA repair mechanisms to correct such mutations. One such mechanism is base excision repair (BER), where the mutated adenine is recognized and removed by DNA glycosylases, ...

Thus, nonsense mutations occur when a premature nonsense or stop codon is introduced in the DNA sequence. When the mutated sequence is translated into a protein, the resulting protein is ...

which either add new genes to compensate for mutated ones, or slicing DNA to silence genes. Dr. Musunuru is a co-founder and equity holder of Verve Therapeutics, a gene therapy company ...